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Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine

“In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what poems are, or forget.”

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The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire
The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire

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The Universe in Verse Book
The Universe in Verse Book

“We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it.”

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Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the Moon Is Leaving Us
Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the Moon Is Leaving Us

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Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated
Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated

“It began as an almost inaudible hum…”

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Let the Last Thing Be Song
Let the Last Thing Be Song

“When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold.”

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Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct
Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct

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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”

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But We Had Music
But We Had Music

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The Ecology of Intimacy
The Ecology of Intimacy

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